Re: devfs vs. udev

Greg KH
2003-10-09T20:54:41Z

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 09:43:10PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 01:49, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:54:04PM +0100, Hugo Mills wrote:
> > >
> > > Surely udev needs the ability to make more than one device node or
> > > symlink when a device is plugged in anyway, so I just see this as an
> > > issue of writing the appropriate default configuration files.
> >
> > More than one device node per device? Why would you want that?
> >
> > And sure, it's just software, it can be made to do that, if someone
> > sends me a patch... :)
> >
>
> Will udev remove the limit on the number of anonymous devices?

udev is a userspace program, it doesn't extend the capability of the
kernel in any manner. If the kernel has such a limit, there's nothing
that udev can do about it.

thanks,

greg k-h